Potential medicinal plants of centurion university of technology and management, Bhubaneswar and their medicinal uses

Abstract

Medicinal plants have long been important in the evolution of human society. Herbal medicines have always been at the forefront of practically all cultures or civilizations as a traditional remedy. Medicinal plants are considered rich sources of traditional remedies, and several modern medicines are derived from them. Medicinal plants have been used to treat illnesses, flavor and preserve food, and avert disease epidemics for thousands of years. The biological properties of plant species utilized all over the world are usually due to secondary metabolites produced by plants. Plant-derived compounds regulate microbial development in a variety of conditions. We provided a general overview of the medicinal plants that have been planted on our campus in this effort.

Ethnogynecological study of traditional therapeutic plants used by the indigenous communities: A case study from District Gujrat Punjab, Pakistan

“…Similarly, little literature is available about therapeutic plants used by rural women for curing gynecological disorders. There is very little work carried out in Pakistan and the whole world (Siddique and Alam 1998;Rahman 2014;Tripathi et al 2010;Sarkhel 2014;Dash and Satapathy 2016;Jan et al 2020;Jan et al 2022;Malik et al 2021;Rehman et al 2022a). Furthermore, due to modernization and the lack of interest of the younger generation in traditional knowledge, which is declining rapidly, ethnoecological knowledge may vanish if not properly recorded .…”